Re: OT: Everyone must be....

bad bloody year.  and I always get a bad case of the cranks once the days
start getting short.  SAD is alive and well, even down South.

On 11/8/07, Theresa W <tchessie1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Pam- you seriously sound like a nice glass of wine is in order.  Bad day
> today??
>
> Theresa
>
> Pam Evans wrote:
> > I am Jim but I'm so very tired.  All these people w/ kids and grandkids
> > don't give a rat's hairy butt and look at me like I'm crazy.  I tell
> them -
> > you have progeny you fools, you should be more upset about this than I
> am.
> > In 40 years - we're gone, extinct. Like we never existed.  But I care
> and
> > you don't!   Stupid.  They won't even get out and vote because they say
> it
> > doesn't matter.  Well it doesn't if you don't vote people!   Ugh.  I'm
> just
> > so worn out w/ it right now.
> >
> > On 11/8/07, james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> Apathy is all the more reason to keep up the good fight, Pam.
> >>
> >> On Nov 8, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Pam Evans wrote:
> >>
> >>> Because I don't have to fool w/ it.  The way the world is headed,
> it'll
> >>> likely be uninhabitable in another 50 years anyway so it's just as
> >>> well.  I
> >>> get discouraged fighting the good fight w/ apathy all around me.
> >>>
> >>> On 11/8/07, Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net> wrote:
> >>>> Why does that make you lucky?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Pam Evans <gardenqueen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I'm lucky I guess. Tom & I have no descendants, so the whole mess can
> >>>> be
> >>>> chucked. End of the line w/ us.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 11/8/07, Daryl
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> Auralie,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sometimes it takes the wisdom of age before family members
> appreciate
> >>>>> family
> >>>>> history. While I've always been interested, my sister-in-law
> >>>>> couldn't be
> >>>>> bothered until she was in her 50's. She was the despair of her
> >>>>> grandmother,
> >>>>> who was DAR and just plain interested. Now, my SIL is the one
> >>>>> ferreting
> >>>>> out
> >>>>> information in out of the way places, and labeling all of the
> photos.
> >>>>> (Good
> >>>>> thing, since I don't know DH's family very well. )
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On my Dad's side, my Aunt and Dad have extensive photo collections
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> still
> >>>>> exchange ideas/stories in their 90's. I've been privileged to listen
> >>>>> in,
> >>>>> since I'm the designated driver. My Aunt's oldest son, now pushing
> >>>>> 70,
> >>>> has
> >>>>> just become interested, and he's scanning photos and making CDs from
> >>>> them.
> >>>>> Don't give up, and please don't throw the stuff out.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> d
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From:
> >>>>> To:
> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:56 PM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Everyone must be....
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I am progressing through this morass, but feeling more and more
> >>>>>> that it's wasted effort. Several years ago I began to write an
> >>>>>> account
> >>>>>> of the family and my childhood, really thinking that my
> >>>>>> granddaughters
> >>>>>> should really know their family background. I have offered it to
> all
> >>>> the
> >>>>>> sons, but the only persons interested have been my middle son's
> >>>>>> second wife and her daughters. These step-granddaughters are quite
> >>>>>> interested since it describes a sort of life they had never even
> >>>> thought
> >>>>>> of. They are quite bright girls and I am very fond of them. None of
> >>>>> the
> >>>>>> rest have even bothered to read it.
> >>>>>> I haven't even begun to process the many boxes of slides, and I
> >>>>>> don't
> >>>>>> think I will. I will give my carousel of NYS Protected Plants,
> which
> >>>>> has
> >>>>>> been the basis of an environmental lecture for some years, to the
> >>>> State
> >>>>>> Garden Club office. Beyond that, I don't see the point in keeping
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> others. Who looks at slides today? And I don't think it's worth
> >>>>>> paying
> >>>>>> to have them put onto tape, when probably noone would bother to
> look
> >>>>>> at them. I used to enjoy photography, and was pretty good at it,
> but
> >>>>>> at this point, I'm pretty frustrated.
> >>>>>> Auralie
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Pam Evans
> >>>> Kemp TX
> >>>> zone 8A
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jesse R. Bell
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Pam Evans
> >>> Kemp TX
> >>> zone 8A
> >>>
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> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
> >> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> >> Hardiness Zone 10
> >> Heat Zone 10
> >> Sunset Zone 25
> >> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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-- 
Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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